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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
They got a response that the margs were each triples, which is why the price was so high. The majority of the service charge went to the server as a tip. Original complainant said the absolutely did not order triples and you had to find the fine print on the menu to understand the service charge situation. In general, the public perception that Vegas is a ripoff is heating up. There has always been grumbling about the resort fees and high prices but we have now entered scam territory in some cases. A guy on tiktok was charged something like $12 for a candy bar in the shop at the bottom of his hotel. I love Vegas and have been many times, but the last time I went (June) I saw much more of what people have been complaining about. The planned stuff like meals, gambling, getting some free drinks, and hitting the pool were all great and fairly normal. It was walking around and trying to grab something like a drink or a snack or even Starbucks that turned into a ripoff.
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Surly kids who can't get into UT
People want the other state schools to improve but the PUF funds are off limits. Nothing will drastically change in our lifetimes. UH, TXST, UNT and some others grew with the population growth. But the birth rate is declining enough that it will impact them in the next 20 years unless Texas stays drastically ahead of the curve in people moving here. I focus mostly on k-12 education but the declining birth rate is going to be a huge shakeup that’s coming sooner than people realize. Way more seniors this year than kindergartners.
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Epstein and Maxwell
Dumb question amnesty but what was the hard evidence used to convict Epstein originally?
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HISD - State of Texas to Takeover School District
I call them Waffle House teachers. Yesterday they worked at Waffle House, today they’re your kids teacher. 54% of teachers hired in Texas last year were uncertified.
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All Encompassing Investment and Financial Planning Thread for the Surly 99.5%
After hammering VOO for all of last year, I’m starting to add to mid-cap growth ETFs. If the top of the market continues to run, then I have a lot of it. Hard for me to not see it as over-inflated though.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
This is the main problem I have with the states ability to take over a district because of one failing school. It encourages a shell game with students and doesn’t solve any real problems. Is Mendez better now or did they just run off the lower performing students? Did they make the nearby middle schools worse off when it comes to academic performance by indirectly forcing them to take in these students? My guess is yes to both questions. We are making a lot of disruptive changes but there aren’t any students that are actually better off. I guess you could make it he argument that the higher performing Mendez kids may have fewer distractions now….but it will be back to the same old stuff once AISD takes over.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
Somewhat related to this topic. In the past AISD gave Mendez middle school to a charter operator to avoid a state takeover. It is now a B rated campus and AISD is taking control back in the fall. I get the desire to operate all of your own campuses, but the situation is dire for AISD and middle schools are a big source of the problem. If you have a low income school getting good scores, just leave it alone.
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Life and Death of a Salesman
It’s really niche. Districts legally have to provide services to high needs special education students, even ones they don’t have the capacity to serve. I set up programs for the .01% of students that are the most challenging, with my company’s staff, but in their buildings. They give us the space, pay us, and we do everything else. Cost is in the range of 50k per student per year, but many are spending more than that to send them to day treatment or a residential facility. Or they are just tired of their staff quitting, paying workers comp claims, or dealing with lawsuits from parents. The deals are complex and often involve state departments of education and/or cooperatives between multiple districts.
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Life and Death of a Salesman
I sell to school districts so our fiscal year starts in September. Pipeline at this moment is 9.3 million in ARR. Quota is 4 million, so hoping about half of that closes. It’s a rough market but I’ve managed to make it work, even with a 1-2 year sales cycle. I have half of the teams pipeline, which seems like it would be a good thing but it’s really just the CEO up my ass all the time. They sure know how to motivate you to bust your ass.
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All Encompassing Investment and Financial Planning Thread for the Surly 99.5%
If you’re just looking to add to your income while preserving the 500k, you can get a 1 year CD at 4%. That would boost your income by 20k a year pretty much risk free. If you are looking for true dividends with a chance of growth, a fund like SCHD would pay almost the same in dividends with more upside potential. Obviously some risk involved with market swings. If you don’t really need that much dividend income and want to increase your chances of growing the 500k while taking on more risk, a total market fund like VTI would still get you an extra 5-6k per year in dividends.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
Closing 10 schools should help for now but if enrollment declines continue they are going to have to look at more. Any school that has under 400 students is going to have a higher than average per student cost and should be up for consideration. Obviously a million other factors such as location, building condition, school ratings, parent support, special programs housed at the school, etc.
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NIMBYism
Was down to 400 last time I checked. My extended family all lived there and it’s where my grandmother was raised. Don’t think I have any living relatives left there. And to make this on topic. There’s plenty of cheap housing in the US. It’s just in the south and Midwest. Desirable places like southern Cali are always going to be expensive. People like me would move there as soon as it got cheaper and drive the prices right back up.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
No surprise, but it passed.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
Not that anybody cares now that certain schools have been saved but they are voting on the plan to close 10 schools tonight.
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